Lindsay Cook

Brief Life History of Lindsay

When Lindsay Cook was born about 1820, in Kentucky, United States, her father, William Henry Cook, was 52 and her mother, Elizabeth Catherine Forbes, was 52.

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William Henry Cook
1769–1838
Elizabeth Catherine Forbes
1769–1838
Margaret Cook
1786–1842
James Cook
1795–
Jean Cook
1817–
Lindsay Cook
1820–
William F. Cook
1789–1865
George Bryant Cook
1790–1844
Jenny Cook
1792–1814
Jonathan F Cook
1793–1869
Sara Cook
1794–
Ruthy Cook
1795–
Elizabeth Cook
1796–1883
Polly Cook
1797–1804
Charlotte Cook
1798–1867
Henry Thompson Cook
1800–1828
Kezia Cook
1800–
James F Cook
1804–1847
Jesse Cook
1807–1871
Elijah Cook
1809–1852

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    World Events (3)

    1820 · Making States Equal

    The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.

    1820 · Making Land more affordable

    The United States law requiring full payment at the time of purchase and registration of any land. to help encourage sales and make land more affordable, Congress reduced the minimum price of dollar per acre and the minimum size that could be purchased. Most of this land for sale was located on the frontier which was then "The West". This Act was good for many Americans, but it was also over used by wealthy investors.

    1830 · Louisville and Portland Canal Opens

    The Louisville and Portland canal opened in 1830. It was a 2 mile canal. It helped with the barrier caused by the Falls of the Ohio River at Louisville by making a route around them.

    Name Meaning

    English: occupational name for a cook, a seller of cooked meats, or a keeper of an eating house, from Middle English cok, coke, cook, couk, cuk(e) (Old English cōc) ‘cook’ or ‘seller of cooked foods’. See also Kew .

    Irish and Scottish: usually identical in origin with the English name (see 1 above), but in some cases a shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Cúg ‘son of Hugo’ (see McCook ).

    Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘cook’, such as German and Jewish Koch , Dutch Kook , Polish Kucharz and Kucharczyk , Slovenian and Croatian Kuhar , North German Kuk .

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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